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Lusaka, Friday, 29 November 2019: The 40th COMESA Council of Ministers meeting took place in Lusaka on Friday 29th November marking the culmination of one week of activities to commemorate the organization’s Silver Jubilee. Ministers responsible for Trade, Commerce and Industry and Permanent/Principal Secretaries led the delegations to the annual meeting, whose primary objective was…
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Lusaka, Thursday, November 28, 2019: The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa – COMESA,  celebrated 25 years since it was established in 1994 to succeed the Preferential Trade Area (PTA). More than 300 delegates, led by Ministers and their representatives from the 21 Member States attended the celebrations hosted alongside the annual COMESA Policy…
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Lusaka, Thursday, November 28, 2019: COMESA has provided $13,000 worth of assorted state of the art Information Technology (IT) equipment to the Zambia Statistics Agency (ZAMSTATS) to support data collection for small scale cross border traders. The equipment comprises of four Desktop Computers with flat screens, four Laserjet Printers, four Un-Interruptible Power Supplies (UPSs), four…
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Lusaka, Monday, November 25, 2019: Close to three hundred delegates have converged in Lusaka to attend the 40th COMESA Intergovernmental Committee Meeting which opened on Monday 25th November. This is an annual forum for delegates from Member States to review the implementation of COMESA’s regional integration programmes and the state of development in the region.…
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Lusaka, Monday, November 25, 2019: Last weekend in Lusaka, Zambia was a sports festival as 120 golfers and 16 football teams participated in the COMESA @25 sports activities in the countdown to the regional bloc’s silver jubilee anniversary scheduled on Thursday, November 28, 2019. On Friday, 120 golfers participated in the COMESA 25th Anniversary Golf tournament…
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